[173275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jul 21 17:37:30 2014
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:36:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of
> subscribers in any
> but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_
> you let them
> parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive
> environment for higher layer services.
As I noted in a long thread last year, I think that providing noncompetitive
L2 aggregation as well -- on the same type of terms -- is productive in
reducing barriers to entry.
But no sense in relitigating that here.
Cheers,
-- jra
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